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Posted on 30 Nov 2010, 17:57 by IgulederDISTRO_SPECS ideaBarry, can you add a distro homepage field in /etc/DISTRO_SPECS? I had a really good idea.

The Debian package lists in Insidious Puppy are 7.9 MB and they're way too much. Plus, having the package lists in an ISO makes no sense in this case, because the repos change a lot.

So I wrote a simple GUI (similar to your Flash one) that downloads a file named "insidious_package_lists.tar.xz" from a subdirectory named "insidious-$DISTRO_VERSION" from the Insidious repository.

But let's say people write more things like this one and want them to be generic ... If each distro version is in a directory named "$DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX-$DISTRO_VERSION" which resides under $DISTRO_HOMEPAGE (or something like that), life could be much easier. Could make things like the video upgrade wizard much more "compatible" with other puppies.

If you think it's a good idea, you could also make Woof create a "$DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX-$DISTRO_VERSION" directory with the ISO and devx, plus a md5sums.txt.

Oh, this homepage could also be used in the help pages. For example, if bkhome.org/wary had "wary-098" under it, the homepage could be set to bkhome.org/wary. The distro homepage that appears in the help pages is the index.html but the URL can also be used for Wary files.